i am not without mercy

thinking about how ruben started reading in prison and developed such a melodramatic vocabulary because he assumed niall would become a posh scholar who smokes pipes in tweed jackets and he needed to try and stay in his level somehow but instead niall just steals books and eats cigarettes

there’s something so gutwrenching about the fact that the female characters in obsession have real dreams and wishes but never get the chance to see them realized, while both male characters waste their wishes on short-term selfish satisfaction. they were complex, free-spirited young women who just wanted to create art, and they were destroyed by a man determined to confine them to his superficial perception of them. nikki wanted to be a writer, sarah wanted to be an tattoo artist and now neither of them will get to be anything at all

nikki begging bear to kill her and all he does is ask whats so bad about being with him. one of the most nauseating scenes ive ever witnessed